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Findroid is a native android jellyfin client. (github.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What are the advantages over the regular jellyfin app? Seems like it maybe does less?

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    the regular jellyfin app is just a web wrapper, at least it behaves like and looks like it, as for advantages, it's the little things, like offline playback, double tap to skip like in youtube etc.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Interesting because the jellyfin app can double tap to skip as well as download media for offline playback.

    I have both and UI seems like the only difference between the two (findroid looks MUCH better) except you have no access to any admin, profile, or library settings or functions (like scanning for new media or fixing metadata) in findroid.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    The official app does download files for offline viewing, but it downloads the file to your downloads folder, like a web browser.

    Findroid downloads the file to the apps internal storage and plays it back in-app.

    Some other platform-native third party JF apps like JellyFlix and Streamyfin allow you to transcode your downloads for smaller files, different resolution, and file compatibility. They also download to the app storage and play back in-app

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Might just be me, but I don't like double tap to skip. Findroid has another scrubbing method I've not seen anywhere else but I wish it were the standard.

    When you drag your finger to the right, it says how far you're about to skip ahead. The longer your swipe, the further you go. When you release, it scrubs to that timestamp. Same with going backwards.

    I find it faster, more accurate, and more versatile. The only thing I don't like about the Findroid player is the UI timeout is twice as long as I need it to be.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Findroid does less, but what it does, it does better (imo).

    In addition, Findroid supports jumoog's Intro Skipper and Trickplay, which isn't available in Jellyfin Android.

    The major missing feature is transcoding support.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just a personal use case, maybe it isn't an advantage. But the official android app is just a web wrapper and the use of MPV as external player don't allow self-signed local certificates (and they never will...).

    Findroid does the job for you while using MPV under the hood and you can connect to your local DNS with self-signed certs without any issues :).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have no issues connecting to my server when using my local DNS and self-signed certificates with the normal app either, or perhaps I'm misunderstanding you.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Ohhh? I tried to make it work even adding the certificate into de /data folder of MPV (rooted android) but it didn't worked... (source)

    I remember I even checked the logs via ADB and while I can't remember the exact error logs, it wasn't accepting my certificate.

    Also android MPV is the only application on Android that doesn't accept my self-signed certificate. Navidrome, HTTP shortcuts, bitwarden, Tempo... They all accept without any problems.

    If you have some juicy info to share I'm all ears 👍 !!

    Edit: It's probably related to android 14 (god I hate it here...) But can't revert to 13... The Stock firmware builds are Bitwise different.

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